Trump’s Alliance with Body-Choppers, Death Squads and Child Killers: Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Israel

Trump’s Alliance with Body-Choppers, Death Squads and Child Killers: Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Israel

Introduction In recent weeks the White House has embraced the contemporary version of the world’s most murderous regimes. President Trump has embraced the Saudi Arabian “Prince of Death” Mohammad bin Salman who has graduated from chopping hands and heads in public plazas to dismembering bodies in overseas consulates – the case of Jamal Khashoggi. The…

Food, Art and Literature: How Israel Is Stealing Arab Culture

Food, Art and Literature: How Israel Is Stealing Arab Culture

As a settler-colonial country, Israel has industriously sought to erase the existence of the people indigenous to the land it occupies, so as to better appropriate aspects of their culture that make it “local”, rather than implanted.  Since food is historically a place-based cultural production, Israeli cuisine prides itself not on bagels, lox or gefilte…

U.S. Pandering to Israel – Time to Cut the Tie that Binds

U.S. Pandering to Israel – Time to Cut the Tie that Binds

The ability of Israel and its powerful Lobby to control many aspects of American government while also sustaining an essentially false narrative about the alleged virtues of the Jewish State is remarkable. Politicians and journalists learned long ago that it was better to cultivate Israel’s friends than it was to support actual American interests. They…

The Upcoming Putin-Netanyahu Summit will Seek to Strike a Balance in Syria

The Upcoming Putin-Netanyahu Summit will Seek to Strike a Balance in Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will see each other during an upcoming summit, which will be their first meeting since last month’s tragedy The Israeli premier said that he spoke to President Putin on 7 October, which just so happened to be the Russian leader’s birthday, and announced that they’ll…